{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Are Your Teachers Doing This Too Much? | EP 295","description":"In today\u2019s episode, I talk about something your teachers probably do hundreds of times a week without thinking twice: they stop the music. It looks like good teaching. But after a conversation with Kelly Bennett from Valencia School of Music, I\u2019m starting to wonder if all that stopping and correcting takes away one of the most important skills a young musician can learn, which is how to recover from a mistake and keep going. Key ideas from this episode: In a private lesson, it\u2019s start, stop, correct. In a band, time keeps moving, and that changes how kids learn. Making a mistake and recovering from one are two very different things, and we underestimate the second one. Kids naturally sync up with each other, often without a single word of instruction. Repetition through looping can do a lot of the teaching for you. Private lessons are valuable, but maybe they shouldn\u2019t be the default starting point for every child. In this episode, you\u2019ll learn: Why a kid who gets lost in a band and jumps back in may be learning more than a kid who gets corrected in a lesson What happened when I put two beginner drummers in the same band (I expected a nightmare) How "the almighty loop" gets kids locked into the groove without the teacher saying anything A simple way to gamify repetition so kids beg to play the same four bars 17 times Six things your teachers can try before they stop the music A quick listening exercise you can do outside your lesson rooms this week that might change how you see your school davesimonsmusic.com ","author_name":"Music Lessons and Marketing","author_url":"http:\/\/davesimonsmusic.com\/","html":"